On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 22:23 -0500, Charles Perreault wrote: > Hi, > > Now that I better know XFS, I don't want to use it anymore. So I'm > migrating all my servers from XFS to JFS. I decided start with the > backup drives (removable 1TB hot swap HDDs used like tape drives). > Backup uses rdiff-backup and rsync. However, with JFS, I'm getting tons > of warning that I didn't get with XFS : > > [...clip 100 pages of warning...] > rsync: failed to set times on "/mnt/backup/etc/rcS.d/S01mountkernfs.sh": > Function not implemented (38)
[ ... clip even more ...] > [...clip 10 pages of warning...] > > It seems the system call to set the modification time on symbolic links > is not implemented ? Rsync has the -O option to remove such warning for > directories (useful with NFS / samba), but not for symlinks. Is this > JFS fault ? I'm using linux with kernel 2.6.22. This is the first I've heard of this. I don't think Linux ever supported setting the modification times on symlinks. Surely, I wouldn't expect it to be supported in file-system specific code. When you switched file systems, did you change kernels or distros? -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list Jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
